Topic - Technology

Powered entirely by wind energy, Conscious Hotel Westerpark will become the fourth property of sustainable hotel chain Conscious Hotels, which for the past year has employed the global hotel industrys leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, to market and sell its rooms online. continue reading →

Essential Data Pack

With data being touted as the new oil, and AI as the new electricity - the field of data science in travel is advancing at breakneck speed. EyeforTravel's latest data pack brings together essential insights for anyone who works in data science, revenue management, product management or marketing. continue reading →

2017 Smart Decision Guides

Starfleet Research, the leader in best practices IT research for the hospitality industry, has announced the availability of two new Smart Decision Guides on next-generation hotel and restaurant technologies. These authoritative 'must read' resources are: The 2017 Smart Decision Guide to Restaurant Management and POS Systems and The 2017 Smart Decision Guide to Hotel Property Management Systems. continue reading →

The Connected Room

Hilton (NYSE:HLT) today unveiled Connected Room, a high-tech guest room that enables guests to personalize and control every aspect of their stay from one central point  their mobile device. Currently in beta testing, Connected Room is live in one hotel, will deploy in coming weeks in several more, and will begin to scale rapidly to hotels across the United States in 2018. continue reading →

The new head of DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) at SiteMinder, the global hotel industrys leading cloud platform, is urging Germanys hotels to begin embracing the digitisation of travel. continue reading →

Hotel Booking Sites

Almost seven years since HotelTonight launched its tonight-only hotel booking app, the industry has been flooded with a host of ambitious startups looking to find similar success. At the recent PhocusWright Summit, almost half of the 24 startups presenting their ideas were related to hotel booking apps. continue reading →